Neural Holographic Near-eye Displays for Virtual Reality

By manipulating light as a wavefront, holographic displays have the potential to revolutionize virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) systems. These displays support 3D focus cues for visual comfort, vision correcting capabilities, and high light efficiency. However, despite their incredible promise, holographic displays have consistently been hampered by poor image quality. Recently, artificial intelligence–driven computer-generated holography (CGH) algorithms have emerged as a solution to this obstacle. On a prototype holographic display, we demonstrate how the progress of recent state-of-the-art Neural Holography algorithms can produce high-quality dynamic 3D holograms with accurate focus cues. The advances demonstrated in this work aim to provide a glimpse into a future where our displays can fully reproduce three-dimensional virtual content.